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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on March 09, 2012, 06:58:07 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/1026172
Oh my.
The vindictive primitive, the notorious re-seller, who pays Dollar General prices for Wedgewood goods and charges Wedgewood prices for Dollar General goods at her own garage sales.
Vinca (21,740 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
An Estate Sale Made Me Angry
I know this is dumb, but yesterday I got so pissed off after going to an estate sale I stewed about it all day. The sale was being run by someone I know and I had a special invite to a "pre-sale sale" on Friday evening that I was unable to get to. I didn't get there on Saturday, either, so I assumed by Sunday when I arrived the place would be picked clean.
What a surprise to walk in and find the place stuffed to the gills. It looked like a museum the items were so high end and it didn't take long to realize the price tags did more than reflect that fact. I didn't see one item priced below what I would consider a retail price and most were well above. One particular picture I had been interested in as a result of the flyer given out weeks before the sale was still on the wall.
After getting over that shock I discovered why. The price was double the value of it. And, unlike other sales I've been to, there was only a very small discount on this, the last day of the sale. I can only assume the owners ignored appraisals and set their own prices. They must have set rules about discounts, too, since I heard a perfectly reasonable offer for a lower end item turned down.
If the person running the sale makes a dime in profit off this I'll be amazed. Don't ask me why this made me so mad . . . I don't know. Maybe it's because sales are few and far between at this time of year and I was looking forward to it and actually had money to spend in my pocket.
Too bad for the vindictive primitive; someone tried to cheat her before she could first cheat him.
supernova (38,867 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
1. Hard to know
Two things could be going on here:
1) Your friend doesn't know anything about estate/tag sales, chiefly that they are for liquidating property And wildly overestimated the value of the items.
2) The owners are jerks who who put ridiculously high reserves on most of their items. In that case, I have a lot of sympathy for your friend who was put in a bad situation.
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It's perfectly fine to profit from capitalism, but not for someone else to. Hmmm.
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Sooo....the prices on these items were already at the amount this DUmpmonkey could sell them for.
Sooo....she couldn't buy them below market and sell them at or above market.
Sooo...she's pissed off at the seller.
That sounds about right for a DUmmy.
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The things that gets these losers mad is truly sad.
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The vindictive primitive wanted to use her inside connection with the seller to profit from another person's loss.
How 1% of her.
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The things that gets these losers mad is truly sad.
You know, the vindictive primitive, an elderly woman from somewhere in New England--I'm guessing New Hampshire or Vermont--has spent her whole adult life dealing in used goods.
Really, it couldn't have been a lucrative profession.
The vindictive primitive, who recently had her hips replaced, would've been better off if circa 40 years ago she'd gone to work at the local factory or something; it would've meant a more stable life and financial security, not to mention a comfortable retirement.
She's a pal of the fecund grasswire primitive, who adores her.
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You know, the vindictive primitive, an elderly woman from somewhere in New England--I'm guessing New Hampshire or Vermont--has spent her whole adult life dealing in used goods.
Really, it couldn't have been a lucrative profession.
The vindictive primitive, who recently had her hips replaced, would've been better off if circa 40 years ago she'd gone to work at the local factory or something; it would've meant a more stable life and financial security, not to mention a comfortable retirement.
She's a pal of the fecund grasswire primitive, who adores her.
Two observations, Coach (well, three, but the last one is about the Nebraska Cornhuskers basketball program)--
1. Birds of a feather . . .
2. Misery loves company.
3. If Nebraska could hire Bruce Weber for their basketball program, they'd be right in the thick of it with Michigan and Michigan State in two-three years.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/1026172
Oh my.
The vindictive primitive, the notorious re-seller, who pays Dollar General prices for Wedgewood goods and charges Wedgewood prices for Dollar General goods at her own garage sales.
Too bad for the vindictive primitive; someone tried to cheat her before she could first cheat him.
In an effort to fill the vast empty of the one eyed monster ( take up time on hundreds of cable channels), there are a literally dozens of shows featuring a flea market / estate auction / storage locker buyer theme. I assume it is the thrill of victory and agony of DE-feet (if you will), that treasure hunter / get rich quicker / little child that is in us all that makes these shows popular, wow that could have been me finding the Rembrandt for $2.00. Yep nourish your inner greed DUmmies. Something for nothing.
Frank, I assume you don't have cable and thus miss all this type stuff ( not that that is a bad thing ). Amazing how much of this there actually is on cable but then there is a lot of time to fill and it is probably cheap to make.
Yard sales and flea markekets seem to be an American tradition.
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Buy retail, sell wholesale. Robert Kiyosaki covered this extensively in his series of bestselling books, the first of which was "Rich Dad Poor Dad".
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How dare someone price something a DUmmy can't afford. :whatever:
Reminds me of their homemade jewelry no one wants to buy because it's priced like Tiffany's.
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Buy retail, sell wholesale. Robert Kiyosaki covered this extensively in his series of bestselling books, the first of which was "Rich Dad Poor Dad".
I thought that was the smartest man in the history of the world thoughts on green energy. But that is buy high go bankrupt but only f the profit to earnings ration is right IOW, negative.
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The things that gets these losers mad is truly sad.
The things that gets these losers mad is what keeps us entertained.
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How dare someone price something a DUmmy can't afford. :whatever:
Reminds me of their homemade jewelry no one wants to buy because it's priced like Tiffany's.
Which primitive was it that was making jewelry with Swarovski crystals, and trying to pawn them to their captive audience they had at an old folk's home?
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Which primitive was it that was making jewelry with Swarovski crystals, and trying to pawn them to their captive audience they had at an old folk's home?
That was no one other than.....
Mrs. Alfred Packer, the hippywife primitive.
I miss her. I wish she'd come back.
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This is rich, coming from the same slopeheads that applaud the $50 lightbulb and the $40k explosive electric car.
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My son's FIL does this estate sales stuff! He could be on that show "Hoarders"! I think he has 2 houses and 2 barns full of stuff. I don't think he's sold anything in years, but he ke3eps buying!
Wonder if this primitive is the same way? His FIL had to move out of his house because of all the crap stacked to the ceiling! OH, and there was dog shit everywhere,too! Just like those shows on TV!
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That was no one other than.....
Mrs. Alfred Packer, the hippywife primitive.
I miss her. I wish she'd come back.
She's fertilizer by now. :whistling:
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She's fertilizer by now.
Nah, hippywife Monica's peddling her junk on the internet now.
She gave up on scamming the DUmp and quit. She also kept seeing franksolich peering from behind trees in her backyard.
The DUmpmonkeys were tapped out by Bev Harris and then the Andyscam, and now Skimmer is bleeding them white, so a sharpie like Monica has slim pickings.
http://www.etsy.com/people/hippywife
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You know, the vindictive primitive, an elderly woman from somewhere in New England--I'm guessing New Hampshire or Vermont--has spent her whole adult life dealing in used goods.
Really, it couldn't have been a lucrative profession.
The vindictive primitive, who recently had her hips replaced, would've been better off if circa 40 years ago she'd gone to work at the local factory or something; it would've meant a more stable life and financial security, not to mention a comfortable retirement.
She's a pal of the fecund grasswire primitive, who adores her.
Oh, quite the contrary, coach. There's a nice little cottage industry of "antique" stores which charge flatlanders with more money than sense outrageous prices for comparative crap. Zeit could tell you all about them.
Kinda like the same places that charge $25 for a pot of crappy tea and the customers who are all to happy to part with said money for what's a bunch of dried flowers in hot water.
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Oh, quite the contrary, coach. There's a nice little cottage industry of "antique" stores which charge flatlanders with more money than sense outrageous prices for comparative crap. Zeit could tell you all about them.
Kinda like the same places that charge $25 for a pot of crappy tea and the customers who are all to happy to part with said money for what's a bunch of dried flowers in hot water.
Yep! Ever watch those Storage huntin' fools? They want to pay bottom dollar, then spike the price up until I'd just look at 'em like they had lost their ever luvin' mind!
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I thought that was the smartest man in the history of the world thoughts on green energy. But that is buy high go bankrupt but only f the profit to earnings ration is right IOW, negative.
If you are talking about AlGore, how does he lose his investors so much money, but keep his own ?
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If you are talking about AlGore, how does he lose his investors so much money, but keep his own ?
He just buys carbon credits from the company he owns. Pretty sweet deal, doncha think?
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He just buys carbon credits from the company he owns. Pretty sweet deal, doncha think?
They were de listed from the exchange, and went bankrupt. How did he manage not only to avoid bankruptcy, but profit from the deal ?
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They were de listed from the exchange, and went bankrupt. How did he manage not only to avoid bankruptcy, but profit from the deal ?
Amazing what you can do if yer a stinkin' crooked DemonRat with a little pull, huh?
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Amazing what you can do if yer a stinkin' crooked DemonRat with a little pull, huh?
Yeah, like Terry McAwful DNC chair and global crossing.
And Hitlary and cattle futures, and many other "investments".
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Kinda like the same places that charge $25 for a pot of crappy tea and the customers who are all to happy to part with said money for what's a bunch of dried flowers in hot water.
It's bad enough to pay that much for tea, but then you discover the place is infested with earwigs.
By the way, if you check out the earwig-infested, pretentiously overpriced tea joint called Perennial Pleasures, way up there in East Hardwick, NH, you find a curious thing.
They've modified their website slightly to include their 2012 schedule, and they've also deleted any reference to the wallduded DUmmy cali, whom they previously described as a dear friend and neighbor Eva Gage.
Why so harsh? All DUmmy cali did was sabotage their business.
Poor, wallduded DUmmy cali. Wonder how she's making it in this 0conomy? Hope they don't cut off her heat before Spring.
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It's bad enough to pay that much for tea, but then you discover the place is infested with earwigs.
By the way, if you check out the earwig-infested, pretentiously overpriced tea joint called Perennial Pleasures, way up there in East Hardwick, NH, you find a curious thing.
They've modified their website slightly to include their 2012 schedule, and they've also deleted any reference to the wallduded DUmmy cali, whom they previously described as a dear friend and neighbor Eva Gage.
Why so harsh? All DUmmy cali did was sabotage their business.
Poor, wallduded DUmmy cali. Wonder how she's making it in this 0conomy? Hope they don't cut off her heat before Spring.
Musta been gone when that happened. So what did she do?
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Musta been gone when that happened. So what did she do?
http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,62285.0 :rofl:
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way up there in East Hardwick, NH
My bad. Of course it's Vermont.
From way down here in red state hell, all those little county-size slivers full of Massholes look alike.
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I just reread the whole saga of DUmmy cali's wallduding, and once again find the funniest comment in the entire thread to be:
Taverner (1000+ posts) Mon Jul-25-11 01:26 PM
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36. What the heck happened?
Dude - can I help you find new work?
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It's bad enough to pay that much for tea, but then you discover the place is infested with earwigs.
By the way, if you check out the earwig-infested, pretentiously overpriced tea joint called Perennial Pleasures, way up there in East Hardwick, NH, you find a curious thing.
They've modified their website slightly to include their 2012 schedule, and they've also deleted any reference to the wallduded DUmmy cali, whom they previously described as a dear friend and neighbor Eva Gage.
Why so harsh? All DUmmy cali did was sabotage their business.
Poor, wallduded DUmmy cali. Wonder how she's making it in this 0conomy? Hope they don't cut off her heat before Spring.
Hush, you--that's VERMONT, not New Hampshire. We have enough on our plates, suffering through the maternal ancestress in Rindge.
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Yeah, like Terry McAwful DNC chair and global crossing.
And Hitlary and cattle futures, and many other "investments".
Enjoy this link when you have the time regarding everyone's favorite AlGore Godfather, Armand Hammer.
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/armand_hammer.htm
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WARNING Will Robinson, danger danger.
Estate sales in my area are a rip off to to the estate.
When my dad was on his last legs, I went to an Estate sale. On a table I saw the perfect item to give him joy, it was a very old knife in a leather sheaf covered with Masonic Symbols. WOW--I had worked overtime for 3 weeks an had a full purse, willing to bid as high as $500.00. More if necessary, forget the rent, Dad was in need of something he could with pride donate to the Lodge as a final gift.
I picked it up and carried it to the auctioneer and asked him to bid it out. He looked surprised and told me the item was not for auction, his company had the right to buy items from the Estate before the auction. The item was bought all ready. So why was it on the auction table, a mistake he said as he took it from me and put it under his table.
This fantastic item that was very old and most unusual would have astounded my dad, He, His father and Grandfather had all been Masters of the same Navy Lodge and was worth me spending every dime I had to see his face on receiving it.
The SOB's are a bunch of frigging sharks that run the Estate sales, this has been a bitch for me for years since, this item got past the workers for the auctioneer company and they stole it from the Estate.
Not a dry eye from me when a local auction company was sued for putting up a painting for auction and instead of auctioning it off bought the painting themselves for 1/10 the value. Big scandal and made people more aware of the rip offs.
Got to remember here in New England stuff in attics and barns that we think is junk is worth enough to pay off the heating bill for the winter. My Mom just paid $758.00 to have her oil tank filled, she just turned 90 and now tells me she is looking for a job.
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Enjoy this link when you have the time regarding everyone's favorite AlGore Godfather, Armand Hammer.
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/armand_hammer.htm
I did read it, and I did enjoy it. I had no idea of any of those ties at all. If you learn something every day, this is it for me.
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Enjoy this link when you have the time regarding everyone's favorite AlGore Godfather, Armand Hammer.
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/armand_hammer.htm
Some time in the 1960's Readers Digest had a story about this man. At the time it struck me as odd as in the 1950's this man escaped the Great Commie Hunt. As people were running about saying better dead then red, they with no thought bought his baking soda with the Hammer and Cycle the Communist symbol right there on the box.
I have no idea today if the same symbol is still on their product as I buy generic backing soda-----
Could be a play on words, Armand Hammer translated to ARM and HAMMER, and a coincidence that the symbol was the same as used at that time to denote Communism. If one believes in coincidence.
Anyway he had quite the life, a sometime Capitalist and a some time Socialist---- really I wonder if he and his life had any part of Amy Rands novels. Seems he must have been a charactor for her to use, in one way or the other.
The very few people that live with his baggage, fascinating. Have you found a piece of John Galt ?????
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Some time in the 1960's Readers Digest had a story about this man. At the time it struck me as odd as in the 1950's this man escaped the Great Commie Hunt. As people were running about saying better dead then red, they with no thought bought his baking soda with the Hammer and Cycle the Communist symbol right there on the box.
I have no idea today if the same symbol is still on their product as I buy generic backing soda-----
Could be a play on words, Armand Hammer translated to ARM and HAMMER, and a coincidence that the symbol was the same as used at that time to denote Communism. If one believes in coincidence.
Anyway he had quite the life, a sometime Capitalist and a some time Socialist---- really I wonder if he and his life had any part of Amy Rands novels. Seems he must have been a charactor for her to use, in one way or the other.
The very few people that live with his baggage, fascinating. Have you found a piece of John Galt ?????
IJohn Galt? Just the gold money clip. :-)
Go here to learn about Baking Soda > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arm_%26_Hammer
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IJohn Galt? Just the gold money clip. :-)
Go here to learn about Baking Soda > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arm_%26_Hammer
Well I will be darned, I sure have my history mixed up here, I was under the impression that Armand Hammer was one of the few American company's that traded with the Soviets in the 1950's and cold years.
Settle down Sparky, I know now it was not Germany that bombed Pearl Harbor, processes of elimination puts it down to the Italians.
Hell I am so old I remember in the 1950's a jump rope chant, ----Whistle while you work, Hitler was a Jerk, Mussolini bit his weenie now it doesn't work.----
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AR missed that whole incident?! It was hands-down the most entertaining day at the DUmp all year. We were watching it unfold before our eyes! One of the characters in the drama ended up joining here. It was such a fun day.
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Hush, you--that's VERMONT, not New Hampshire. We have enough on our plates, suffering through the maternal ancestress in Rindge.
Yes, plagiarist Pitt's moonbat mom DUmmy Raven, who wallduded herself in early 2011, long before the earwig plague in Vermont.
Her wallduding may have resulted from her angry descriptions of her bosses, the city fathers of Rindge, as a bunch of fundy Christian nutbags, because they were trying to balance the town budget.
Somehow - no one really knows how on earth it happened - those city fathers apparently came into possession of DUmmy Raven's rants.
Shortly afterward, there was a closed council meeting to discuss personnel matters.
After that, DUmmy Raven was replaced by the lady who had previously been her assistant.
She's old enough, so maybe she just retired. Or maybe she's poor, wallduded DUmmy Raven.
I have a hunch bobbolink is behind the whole thing.
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I hope Vinca alerted 0bama and his misses to this, I'm sure they or their Marxist tsars will find great deals.
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Oh, quite the contrary, coach. There's a nice little cottage industry of "antique" stores which charge flatlanders with more money than sense outrageous prices for comparative crap. Zeit could tell you all about them.
Kinda like the same places that charge $25 for a pot of crappy tea and the customers who are all to happy to part with said money for what's a bunch of dried flowers in hot water.
Are you talking on rt 4 in Barrington.Northwood, Sparky???? There are like 5 or 6 antique shops on a mile stretch??
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Yes, plagiarist Pitt's moonbat mom DUmmy Raven, who wallduded herself in early 2011, long before the earwig plague in Vermont.
Her wallduding may have resulted from her angry descriptions of her bosses, the city fathers of Rindge, as a bunch of fundy Christian nutbags, because they were trying to balance the town budget.
Somehow - no one really knows how on earth it happened - those city fathers apparently came into possession of DUmmy Raven's rants.
Shortly afterward, there was a closed council meeting to discuss personnel matters.
After that, DUmmy Raven was replaced by the lady who had previously been her assistant.
She's old enough, so maybe she just retired. Or maybe she's poor, wallduded DUmmy Raven.
I have a hunch bobbolink is behind the whole thing.
Many fear that BOBO the Hobo, the covert conservative, has gone to that great parking lot in the Skylark, or perhaps is just at an impound lot with a blown head gasket. I think she was done in by the Pitt family in a fit of pique. Others say they dun 'er in fer 'er hat. :whistling: